Daily Quickie, 03.27.14

Results of the internal review conducted by the law firm hired by Gov. Chris Christie’s office of the George Washington Bridge lane closures and allegations regarding Hoboken’s Superstorm Sandy aid are released at 11:30 a.m., when the review’s lead attorney, Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, holds a briefing at his firm’s office in Manhattan. The report, exhibits and appendices will be posted at www.GDCReport.com.

Senate Environment & Energy Committee meets, 10 a.m. in the Statehouse Annex’s Committee Room 10. The agenda includes bills that would ban fracking, put the state back into the RGGI emissions cap-and-trade program, eliminate the CAFRA permit exemption for coastal reconstruction and spend $21.7 million on dam repairs and restorations.

New Jersey’s preliminary jobs data for February and revised data for January are released by the state Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

Senate President Stephen Sweeney is among the speakers at the NJ Diabetes Leadership Forum event at the Trenton War Memorial that begins at 9 a.m. Sweeney, who is diabetic, speaks at 10:45 a.m.

Teachers, parents, students and community leaders from Newark hold a rally at the Statehouse to express their frustration with the management and policies of the city’s public schools. Speakers include Sen. Ronald Rice, Councilman (and mayoral candidate) Ras Baraka, NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer, NAACP New Jersey State Conference President Richard Smith and Newark Public Schools Advisory Board Chairwoman Antoinette Baskerville Richardson.

Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin and Deputy Commissioner Michele Siekerka announce a new initiative to crack down on illegal dumping in state parks, forests, wildlife management areas and natural lands, noon at Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park in Franklin Township and Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Woodland Township.

Nurses and health care workers from the Health Professionals and Allied Employees and other unions and organizations have a “Trenton Takeover” lobbying day to talk with state lawmakers and deliver petitions to the state Department of Health calling for stronger oversight and safer staffing levels.

It’s Humane Lobby Day, in which animal advocates gather at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton to meet with lawmakers and urge passage of bills that would ban the use of confinement crates for breeding pigs, among other proposals.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection hold a public information session regarding the ongoing Passaic River Basin Flood Risk Management General Re-evaluation Study, 7 p.m. at Pompton Lakes High School.

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and representatives from Autism Speaks react to updated estimates of autism spectrum disorders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1:30 p.m. in Washington. (Online stream available.)

Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, who is also a Democratic House candidate in the 12th District, speaks at a Get Covered America information and health-insurance enrollment event, 10 a.m. at Mercer County Community College in Trenton. The Delta Sigma Theta sorority co-hosts the event.

The state judiciary’s Essex Vicinage, the Essex County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and the Essex County Clerk’s Office hold a voter education program, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Veterans Courthouse in Newark.

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About Michael Symons

Michael Symons has covered seven governors while working in Gannett's Statehouse Bureau -- a stint which actually only stretches back to 2000, but the door revolves quickly in New Jersey politics. He's co-author of the biography "Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power."

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Bob JordanBob Jordan has covered state, county and muncipal governments for the past 10 years. He has also covered the gaming industry and has been a sports team beat writer for NHL, NBA and major league baseball teams.E-mail Bob

John SchoonejongenJohn Schoonejongen is state editor for Gannett New Jersey newspapers. He has reported and edited at New Jersey newspapers from Salem County to Passaic County, writing about everything from state politics to lost pigs on the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Born in Camden County, he still speaks with a southern New Jersey accent, much to his wife's annoyance.E-mail John

Michael SymonsMichael Symons has covered seven governors while working in Gannett's Statehouse Bureau -- a stint which actually only stretches back to 2000, but the door revolves quickly in New Jersey politics. He's co-author of the biography "Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power."E-mail Michael